[GRASS-dev] making grass modules less verbose

[Glynn Clements]

Brad Douglas wrote:

> > > I fully agree with you. But how to do this the best way? Add new
> > > parameter to the function? 
> > > 
> > > e.g.
> > > 
> > >     G_percent(row,nrows,2,module)
> > > 
> > >     so that 
> > > 
> > >     G_percent could call G_percent2(n,d,s,stderr,module->verbose)
> > > 
> > > Make G_percent(), G_debug() and G_message() read environment variable
> > > GRASS_VERBOSE? I would say, this would be the best solution.
> > 
> > Add a function to query the verbosity level, and change G_percent()
> > etc to use it.
> > 
> > If there's a GRASS_VERBOSE environment variable, you probably want
> > both --verbose and --quiet (the latter would disable verbosity even
> > when GRASS_VERBOSE is set).
> 
> A smaller issue is that of '\n'.  G_message("\n") doesn't work well and
> the alternative has been to use:
> 
> fprintf(stderr, "\n");
> 
> Going quiet may yield an extraneous number of CRs depending on the
> module...

Can you clarify.

G_message() ought to terminate anything it writes.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>